Gungeon Guide

Roll Bomb

Power ChargePassive

Produces a bomb when dodge rolling. This strange mechanism dispenses explosives when spun.

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Description

Roll Bomb is a passive item .

Effects

  • Dodge rolling leaves behind a bomb that explodes and damages enemies.
  • Bombs deal 5 damage if they touch an enemy, and the explosion deals 20 damage.

Synergies

Notes

  • If the player is holding Irradiated LeadIrradiated Lead , roll bombs will leave puddles of poison goop. This is not marked as synergy.
  • Bombs dropped by this item do not anger Bello .
  • Bombs dropped by this item cannot damage the player.
  • Bombs dropped by this item do not reveal secret rooms. They do crack walls, but only after several hits.
  • While sliding over tables, pressing the roll button again will spawn another bomb.
  • Roll Bomb is affected by bullet modifiers. Furthermore, since the bomb explodes, it may also leave behind creep specific to that modifier, e.g. Hot LeadHot Lead leaving big pools of fire.

Trivia

  • This item is a reference to the morph ball bombs upgrade in the Metroid series where Samus can turn into a ball, roll around, and drop bombs. This item's sprite is very similar the sprite used for the bomb item in Super Metroid.
  • The y cant u crawl synergy is a reference to a miiverse post in the Super Metroid Miiverse community, where the user asked: "Y Can't Metroid Crawl".

Unlock Method

Purchase from DougDoug for 12 .